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BRIEF: Saroyan Award Winners Announced

BRIEF: SAROYAN AWARD WINNERS ANNOUNCED

Stanford Daily
September 23, 2008
CA

Stanford University Libraries recently announced the winners of its
biennial Saroyan Writing Prize.

The award for fiction went to Stanford alumna Nicole Krauss ’96 MA ’96
for her novel, The History of Love. The plot involves the intersections
between the lives of two unusual characters over a span of 60 years.

Kiyo Sato received the non-fiction award for her memoir, Dandelion
Through the Crack. The book chronicles her family’s struggles through
the Depression, wartime emergency, life in an Arizona internment camp
and post-war prejudice.

A total of 230 books competed for the 2008 Saroyan Prize. The honor
is named for Pulitzer and Academy Award-winning writer William Saroyan
(1908-1981), who was an Armenian-American author born in Fresno, Calif.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Emil Lazarian: “I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS
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